Equus – Books for Men

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Click here to buy ‘The Glow’ from Amazon.

Click here to buy ‘The Glow’ from TWB Press.

My latest horror / sci-fi novel is out! From TWB Press: “Glenn, Fantastic job! I absolutely LOVE this story. I was hooked. I was engaged. I was involved with your characters…”

Sam Trencher has a problem. To keep from bursting into flames he must keep the exact same coins in each pocket. Six years ago, he left his hometown and his girl. Now he’s coming back to find her, but can’t tell what’s real and what’s not—and his temperature is rising.

Trailer for The Glow:

(video credit: Terry Wright)

REVIEWS:

“The Glow, a psychological, Stephen King-type thriller by Glenn Lazar Roberts, is a science fiction, fantasy, horror story set in southwestern Native American country. It is an exciting, fast-paced tale that takes the reader through a roller coaster ride with strong vibes of traditional drug induced tribal folklore blended with unusual alien intrusion. His well-scripted characters are vivid actors who pull the reader into each vivid scene following a twisted plot to [its] climactic conclusion. The Glow is one of the best stories I have ever read.” —E L Russell, author Deadly Awakenings. 

“The Glow makes you perfect but perfection comes at a cost… This is a unique scifi thriller that mixes native culture with a small minded southwestern town. ‘Reverse The Glow? You can’t. All you can do is control it – maybe..’ ” —M.P.

“Glenn Lazar Roberts is one of the finest writers of unconventional prose in contemporary fiction. His wonderfully inventive plots and mastery of the language place him in the company of Calvino, Burges, Gass…” —C. Thorman, author of Holy Orders

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Click here to buy ‘LA 2032 Starting Over’ on Amazon

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(Bookstores: L.A. 2032 Starting Over is available NOW for purchase from Ingram on competitive terms)

L.A. 2032 Starting Over by the amazing popular writer Dr. Ron Hull. Ron’s latest novel is an intriguing look at LA’s future, remarkably prescient in view of the recent events in Pacific Palisades. A dystopian view of what things might look like after a global pandemic and what kind of future may await the survivors. Click on the picture for more info.

REVIEW: Ronald W. Hull’s novel, ‘Starting Over,’ unfolds with apocalyptic and dystopian gravity. Set primarily in the Los Angeles area, the story begins in 2032 at the outbreak of a pandemic spread by ‘Amazonia-9’… This novel thrives on the intricacies of “starting over” from the ground up. I highly recommend this groundbreaking cautionary tale. –Eva Pasco, writer in realism

REVIEW: Ron Hull’s post-apocalyptic novel is a dark look at what the world might look like following a global pandemic exponentially worse than what the world experienced with COVID [as] Humanity teeters on the edge of extinction… A gritty, uncomfortable, yet compelling story that reminded me that the end may not come with explosive annihilation. It may just as easily come with microscopic stealth. –Rebecca McKeehan, author, poet, essayist

RONALD HULL’S YOUTUBE INTERVIEWS WITH ADAM COLE:

December 3, 2024: click here to access.

December 11, 2024: click here to access.

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Click here to buy ‘Temple of the Double Sun’ at  TWB Press.

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My recently completed work Temple of the Double Sun is now available from the noted sci-fi publisher TWB Press. This novel tells the story of the original colonists from Earth as they land on the virgin uninhabited planet Maalstrom with instructions to colonize the planet. For readers of Maalstrom and The Selk King who were wondering how it all started and why there are occasional remnants of a prior technical society, the novel Temple of the Double Sun will answer all your questions. Click on the picture for more info.

Trailer for Temple of the Double Sun:

(video credit: Terry Wright)

REVIEW: Intriguing… prose style [like] Heinlein/[H.G.]Wells magisterium... -Geoff .A.

BOOKS COMING SOON TO EQUUS PUBLISHING, A ‘PUBLISHING SANCTUARY FOR MEN’:

Oct 1: Frenzy, by Glenn Lazar Roberts, audio version.

Nov 1: Invisible Empires, by E.B. Chernyak, trans. by Glenn Lazar Roberts from the Russian. A learned study of secret societies in old and new times.

For some years I have been collecting popular n sometimes quite rare editions of science fiction books, both paperback n hardback. I am posting them here not to imply they are for sale but simply to let people know they exist. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, plus many more. Click a picture for full page. Watch this Equus splash page to see them as I find time to post them.

FICTION FOR MEN:

QUANTUM MARLOWE by Glenn Lazar Roberts

“I stepped through the wall and the molecules that formed the gypsum and paint on the building that was the pride of Ciudad Juarez again became impenetrable. Outside, I re-attached my finger. Pinky. I smiled at the nickname. Pinky this, moronista! I told you no jail could hold me. Who the hell fucks over his worst enemy, gives him the keys to the Universe, then fucks him over again? Well, that’s their hard luck, cause when Pinky gives them the finger, they stay fingered. I’m just that kinda guy.”

Quantum mechanics meets hard-boiled detective in this classic film noir take-off on Dashiell Hammett’s famous Sam Spade and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. Click here for more. . .

New Review! “Wheels within wheels—well done and funny. I started laughing on page 1. . .Is there any way you could resist asking for more?” —Mensa Bulletin Book Reviews

A nominee in Dragon Award’s Best Science Fiction Novel category.

Click here to buy ‘Quantum Marlowe’ from Amazon   

Click here to buy ‘Quantum Marlowe’ from TWBPress.com  

JUDGE CRATER TAKES A POWDER by Glenn Lazar Roberts. Adventures of Maggie, the Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book One.

In August 1930, Judge Joseph Crater of the New York Supreme Court said goodbye to his friends one late evening and proceeded to walk to the Belasco Theater a few streets away. He never arrived. The disappearance of Judge Crater was one of the greatest mysteries of Depression-era U.S. In  Roberts’ Judge Crater Takes A Powder we learn what really happened to Judge Crater—and to Amelia Earhart—in this hilarious sci-fi novel that involves J. Edgar Hoover, German spies, Japanese submarines, cowardly mafia, space-folding transvestites, recipe-obsessed nuns, and Orson Welles, as Hoover recruits Joseph Crater to help him uncover a galactic conspiracy of gloriously incompetent aliens who have assumed human form. From 1930s New York City to alien planets, Judge Crater is a devastating satire of modern political correctness. Will snowflakes, marshmallows, and the easily offended find safe spaces inside? Heyll NO! Warning to micro-sensitive SJWs: read at your own risk!

Click here to buy Judge Crater on Amazon.

REVIEWS:

“Nuts!” —Sirius Reviews

“Roberts interweaves historical fact with castles in the air, dubiousness and irony to create a fast paced narrative filled with the almost plausible as well as out-and-out incredible in this sardonic romp. . . For those who like a bit of sarcasm swathed in quirkiness and screwball circumstance; Judge Crater Takes a Powder should prove to be a worthwhile read. Happy to recommend [it] for those not easily dismayed, repulsed or dazed.” —Authorsden

“He is a judge and he is called up to the FBI to solve a mystery. Many characters will join him along the way. What is the mystery? Can they solve it? See how and if they can do it.” —Tanyawriter, 5 stars

“A fun story covering all kind of conspiracy theories and it makes you laugh and just enjoy.” —BigT, 5 stars

A truly insane effusion from the warped mind of Glenn Lazar Roberts, written while recovering from a broken leg. Inspired by Monty Python with lunatic characters in crazy situations and a not-so-subtle anti-Wokism. Maggie, our lovely hero, is the ultimate Social Justice Warrior.

This month’s FREE EQUUS KINDLE:

‘Cross-Dressers From Pluto’, by Glenn Lazar Roberts

September 2 thru September 6, 2025.

Completed. Watch for a new Free Equus Kindle in early October.

CROSS-DRESSERS FROM PLUTO by Glenn Lazar Roberts. Adventures of Maggie, the Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book Two.

Pop the Thunderbird wine and break open the nopalitos, because Maggie the Radiated Lesbian Nun is igniting fires and breaking hearts from Santa Monica to across the galaxy! Raised in a secret convent in Area 51, young Maggie is caught up in alien plans for global warming in this hilarious satire of political correctness featuring Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hoffa, Joseph Smith, Harry S. Truman, D.B. Cooper, Howard Hughes, and Stalin, with re-appearances of the infamous Jello Brothers, the incompetent German agents Heinz and Huntz, Seaboot Captain French, galactic toads, and more Evil Mimes than you can shake a stick at—which is highly recommended.

Political correctness may never recover from this no-holds-barred satirical science fiction novel about a galactic conspiracy to raise ocean levels on planet Earth to suit an alien species, which only Maggie can stop. Don’t miss the antics of the ultimate, man-hating Social Justice Warrior, Maggie P. Squatch, who is illiterate but self-righteous, and always just a second away from hair-trigger violence. Will SJWs be offended even inside their safe spaces? Heyll YES! 

Click here to buy Cross-Dressers on Amazon. 

REVIEWS:

“Nuts!” —Sirius Reviews

“A fun short take which will have you laughing out loud as you read. You will never see Area 51 the same again.” —Tanyawriter (5 stars).

“Bizarro humor cranked up, from whatever-happened-to Hoffa and Elvis, on to saving-the-world from aliens, Earth’s rescuer being a strong-willed hardheaded nun from yes, Area 51.” —Haunted Reader

“It all comes together by the end.” —William W.

THE WARRIORS by Glenn Lazar Roberts. Adventures of Maggie, the Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book 3.

“Never trust eight wheels and a smile.” Social Justice Warrior Maggie and her all-girl roller derby team rule the mean streets of Los Angeles. When Sirius, leader of a rival team, is assassinated in Griffith Park, the Warriors get blamed, and Maggie must lead her roller-derby gang across Los Angeles through hostile roller derby gangs seeking revenge for the death of Sirius. Will snowflakes and the easily offended find Safe Spaces inside? Heyll NO! Will the brave reader find lots of laughs? Heyll YES! Political Correctness meets its match in this work of manic genius.

This book is the ONLY satirical take-off of the 1979 classic cult New York City gang movie The Warriors. Be sure to see the movie BEFORE reading this book! It’s also recommended to first read RLN Books 1 & 2 (see above), because the 3 books are one continuing story. Click here for more. . .

Click here to buy ‘The Warriors’ on Amazon

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JIHAD BUBBA by Glenn Lazar Roberts.

Don’t miss Bubba’s antics as he struggles to cope in a futuristic sci-fi world peopled by smart-alec robots and run by braless, purple-haired SJWs. Watch Bubba get tired of losing and finally Go For Broke with unpredictable consequences for everyone. My most hilarious and irreverent work. Irreverent, that is, to self-righteous SJWs. This satire is guaranteed to trigger and macro-aggress every purple-haired and blue-nosed Social Justice Warrior school-marm everywhere. Click here for more. . .

REVIEW: “Do not read this book straight through. Read it until you burst out laughing. . .” David M. (5 stars)

For the full story on the struggle to publish Jihad Bubba, see the blog entry The Saga of Jihad Bubba on the right>>

Click here to buy ‘Jihad Bubba’ on Amazon

‘Jihad Bubba’ is not available in Kindle due to its controversial anti-Woke content. Equus will release an epub version soon. 

MAALSTROM by Glenn Lazar Roberts.

Descendant of forgotten colonizers from Earth, the ruthless warrior-noble of the ancient City of Ven, Flores of the Turlicum, plunges into vicious wars on the alien planet Maalstrom. Stumbling into Ven’s forbidden Temple, Flores falls for the beautiful priestess Amina, and unleashes events that threaten to undermine the planet’s fragile inter-species truce. In the tradition of Robert E Howard’s Conan stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian series, bloody primitive conflict at its best. Click here for more. . .

“Glenn Lazar Roberts is one of the finest writers of unconventional prose in contemporary fiction. His wonderfully inventive plots and mastery of the language place him in the company of Calvino, Burges, Gass… Roberts has created a world of scary prescience and hair-raising adventure… Maalstrom is not only highly imaginative, it’s a splendid work… Highly recommended.” —C. Thorman, author of Holy Orders

NOTE: I recommend reading ‘Temple of the Double-Sun’ before reading Maalstrom

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THE SELK KING by Glenn Lazar Roberts.

Flores of the Turlicum pursues his lost love Amina, priestess of the forbidden Temple of Vensa, across the alien planet Maalstrom to Ra’Allah, the Island of the Sun-God. In another plot filled with eccentric characters and gruesome combat, Flores discovers the Black Pillar at the center of the world and climbs from its lowest reaches to the selks’ crystalline city in the clouds. The mysterious relationships that link Maalstrom’s bizarre species further unfold in THE SELK KING. In the tradition of Robert E. Howard’s Conan and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars, Flores of the Turlicum is bloody heroic fantasy at its best! Click here for more. . .

“Compelling. Any sci-fi enthusiast would love this book.” —Writer’s Digest

“A great sci-fi fantasy story… The story line was fantastic and intriguing… A good read!” —Marilyn Vine, Vine Voice

“A complex feat of world-building postulating a bizarre yet philosophically intriguing and enterprising alternative to Evolution.” —Mallory A. Haws The Haunted Reading Room Reviews

Click here to buy ‘The Selk King’ on Amazon

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FACTION FOR MEN:

Confessions of a CIA Spy in the Soviet Union by Glenn Lazar Roberts

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A memoir of my personal experiences in the Soviet Union from a journal I kept at the request of the CIA in 1990, a short time before the USSR dissolved. I had just completed a Master’s degree in Russian-Islamic relations at an Ivy League university and was fairly fluent in both Russian and Arabic. Never before published anywhere or discussed with anyone. Many comments on Russian history and the nature of Islamic societies. Will include my stays in Ukraine, Hungary, and Israel.

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THE FOLLOWING WORKS ARE DENSE ACADEMIC STUDIES WITH MANY FOOTNOTES. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART, BUT ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING ISLAMIC AFFAIRS:

ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LAW by Glenn L. Roberts.

Traditional Islamic law has long been regarded as academic, local in nature, and relevant only as a measure of the inadequacy of women’s rights in the family law regimes of a few Islamic states. In opposition, the author argues that the Sharia is both a quasi-regional customary international law capable of competing with prevailing customary international law, and brings its own international agenda of “Islamic human rights” that compete with and seek to displace “Western human rights.” Rather than acknowledging the rights of Muslims qua Muslims internationally, aggressive proponents of an “American customary-law-of-human-rights school” have responded with a new militant doctrine of “instant customary law” to aid the U.S. in its “war on terror,” targeting the Sharia wherever encountered, and triggering a global “war on Islam.” Second half of my doctoral dissertation. PLS NOTE: this is an academic work with many footnotes. If academic works with footnotes intimidate you, do not buy it!  Click here to look inside.

Click here to buy: Islamic Human Rights & International Law

SHARIA LAW & THE ARAB OIL BUST by Glenn L. Roberts

The delayed development of the Islamic world, in defiance of the formulaic approaches long favored by economists, suggests that traditional Sharia and Islamic values and principles are at least partially responsible for the region’s persistent backwardness. By analyzing the impact of the legal regime of the Sharia on Saudi Arabia during the Arab Oil Bust of the 1980s, this thesis concludes that Islamic social values and the Sharia’s de facto role as an uncodified pre-emptive Arab common law implemented with high regard to precedent by ulama with extraordinary power of judicial review had the effect of accentuating the effects of the Oil Bust, making the theory of the Petrocurse a subset of a larger Cost of Being Muslim. On the other hand, the author concludes that not only is the Sharia not constrained by its nature to playing a deleterious economic role, but that it has broad commercial application, both domestically and internationally, and a new generation of more flexible Muslim economists, lawyers, and financial theorists have pointed the way toward a possible comprehensive modern adaptation of Islamic laws and principles. First half of my doctoral dissertation. PLS NOTE: this is an academic work with many footnotes. If academic works with footnotes intimidate you, do not buy it! Click here to look inside.

Click here to buy: Sharia Law & the Arab Oil Bust

COMMISSAR & MULLAH: SOVIET-MUSLIM POLICY FROM 1917 TO 1924 by Glenn L. Roberts

This was written with the aid of my graduate research on site in Russia and Uzbekistan. During the revolutionary period the Soviets came into political and cultural conflict with Russia’s Muslims. Despite indications that the majority of Muslims desired political unification based on their Islamic heritage, the Party divided them into separate “nationalities” along narrow ethnic lines, incorporated most into the RSFSR, and attempted to uproot traditional Islamic institutions and customs under the aegis of class war. Resistance took the form of pan-Muslim nationalism, a reformist political conception with roots in the Near East. This conflict not only aborted the export of revolution to the Islamic world, contributing to the passing of the revolutionary era in Russia, but aided Stalin’s rise to power. Soviet policy succeeded politically, defining the terms of interaction between Russians and Soviet Muslims for the next 70 years, but failed culturally in 1921-22, when the Party was forced to suspend its “war on Islam” as the price of political control. Note: this version is missing my essay on Nationalism, which was excluded by my advisor. The essay can be found in the version housed in the college library. PLS NOTE: this is an academic work with many footnotes. If academic works with footnotes intimidate you, do not buy it! Click here to look inside.

Click here to buy: Commissar and Mullah: Soviet-Muslim Policy from 1917-1924

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